"CJD and youth"

Deborah Schechter <DebbieOney@AOL.COM> posted: a long piece about

Subject: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Youth

I know this lady means well and is very serious, but she has been posting to
the nursing groups for months now and getting little positive response. I see
she's extended her reach, probably to every NG and listserv on the 'Net that
is remotely youth-oriented. Note the generic "you may have a youth in your
group..."

Remember a few yrs back when the child abduction hysteria was peaking, and
people were claiming that something like 500,000 kids were abducted every
year? OK, do the math. That would work out, on average, to about 1000 kids per
state per year. What are the chances that you would have seen news reports in
your area about **20 kids per week** in your state disappearing?

Of course, this is not to discount the kids who DO disappear. And CJD IS a
real disease, albeit a very very rare one in people. It's bovine equivalent
(it's postulated) is bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as
"mad cow disease."

Fact is, CJD is *not* a sleeping epidemic, it would be **astounding** if you
did have a youth in your group whose parent has died with this, and if vast
numbers of people were showing up with symptoms of dementia (loss of mental
faculties) and myoclonus (seizure-like activity of the muscles) we'd all know
about it.

I think we give this one a pass.

YiS
Auntie Beans
ASM T44 Pocasset MA
Cape Cod & Islands Council
Abake MiSaNaKi Lodge #393
NSJ 1997 Nat'l Health & Safety
I useta be an Eagle...
' We used to be a Beaver and a good old Bobwhite too,
But now we've finished Foxing and we don't know what to do,
We're growing Owl and Eagle, and we can Bear no more,
So we're getting out of Gilwell while we can!'
NEI-188
Scouting is a way of life....oooommmmmmmmm...repeat as needed*

*Thanks, Larry Faust...

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